Post by Radrook Admin on Oct 23, 2022 9:14:36 GMT -5
Brain Implants. Reasons for apprehension?
The video below focuses on a brain/machine interface via an implant in the human brain. It enumerates the many benefits that can accrue from such a technology.
For example, it will eventually make the control of an artificial limb, such as a prosthetic hand or leg possible for amputees, without their needing to be tethered to one location. Yet, despite the predicted medical benefits, one still wonders just how this might be misused. What devious ways will mankind devise in order to gain power over others?
For example, will those in power employ brain-transplants to control entire national populations by making the transplant obligatory at birth? To keep such populations incapable of opposing those who might be ruling unjustly over them? Will some remote-controlled implants allow such despotic rulers to murder any person deemed disruptive based merely on suspicions? Will law-enforcement use it to control crime in a ruthless way? Will criminals, such as rapists, thieves, pedophiles and serial-killers, cunningly devise ways to employ such technology to significantly enhance their criminal activities?
Considering just how exceedingly negative human predispositions can be, such technological advances do provide many justifiable reasons for apprehension.
Last Edit: Oct 23, 2022 9:33:32 GMT -5 by Radrook Admin
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